Exploring sarcodes: a very hurried man

by Ghanshyam Kalathia

As classical homeopaths, we
know about sarcode remedies and most of us prescribe them. Still, we have very
little information about sarcodes as group. I would like to present my
understanding of sarcodes from my own cases and from what I have learned from
my teachers, Rajan Sankaran and his team.

The illustrating case is taken and analyzed using Sankaran's method of levels and sensation.

A 35 year old businessman
came to my clinic for treatment of allergic bronchitis; his verbatim report is
as follows.

GK: Tell me all about your
problem?

P: I have a problem of
asthma; during asthmatic attacks there is a wheezing sound. This problem is my
routine problem and I have become used to it. (Observation: He blinked his eyelids
very fast and forcefully.)

GK: Tell me more about your
asthma.

P: One and half years beforehand,
I had severe acidity. At that time, I wasn’t even able to take any food, so I
took some herbal preparations and I recovered completely from acidity. After
that, my health was fine, but suddenly one night, I woke up due to difficulty
breathing; I became scared from the wheezing sound of my respiration and my
family members also got scared to see me in that situation, so they took me to
the hospital immediately. After half an hour, I became totally normal but since
then, I get these attacks every ten to fifteen days. I take so many therapies
but nothing is very effective, so I came to you. (This is the level of names
and facts.)

GK: What did you feel during
the first attack? (shifting his level from fact to feeling.)

P: At that time, I got really
scared, with much perspiration, but now, I have nothing to get scared of
because I know that this wheezing happens due to a narrowing of my respiration
tube. Almost all asthma patients have the same problems. Asthma is the enemy of
sleep: during deep sleep, I suddenly had breathing problems (HG – he makes a fist
with great speed.) and that arouses me because air is not able to come out of
my lungs. I think my lungs get blocked and then they give orders to my brain
and immediately brain awakens me. (His speech is very fast.)

GK: I understand, please go
on.

P: During these attacks, I
feel some heaviness in my chest as if my system is not ready to remove gases,
so my breath neither comes in nor goes out; if at that time I take an asthalin
(etophylin) inhaler then my system becomes normal. Since this asthma, I also
have complaints of weakness – I feel that my legs start to get weaker.

GK: Please tell me about
weakness?

P: I am really scared to
become paralyzed. I feel as if the functioning of my whole system is going to
stop. I believe that the cells of my brain are dying. Doctors tell me that it is nothing serious,
but if I have nothing wrong, why would I get all these complaints?

GK: What do you feel in your
legs?

P: Suddenly my legs become
loose (HG – he hangs his palm downward and oscillates it) as if there is not
any power in them. It is as though my legs are sluggish, with no movement. (HG
–hanging). I think that the activity and the blood supply of my brain become
sluggish.

(His talking pattern is in
the form of ‘as if’: that means these all are his perceptions, but they are
still at a local level. With the next question, I try to make them
generalized.)

GK: Forget about your body;
please tell me what is ‘sluggish’? (‘Sluggish’ has been mentioned more than
twice).

P: Sluggish means there is
not any power in you. Anything becoming totally loose (HG – hanging) is
sluggish. An altered blood supply in your brain makes you sluggish. Blood makes
you powerful, otherwise you become totally loose (HG – hanging) as if you are a
plastic bag filled up with water.

(He shifted from ‘I’ to ‘You,’
that means he’s now generalizing.)

GK: Tell me more about
‘sluggish’ and ‘loose’?

P: Sluggish means it is not
paralysis, but you have little or no movement. Your power is completely drained
out. The experience of sluggishness is the same as when you have severe
dehydration: in dehydration your body becomes totally loose (HG –hanging).

(He talk about ‘Experience,’
that means he is now at sensation level. He hangs his palm downward and makes
very slow oscillatory movement when he describes sluggish repetitively, so I
ask the next questions about HG.)

GK: When you talk about
sluggishness you make some hand gestures, what is your experience of this? (I
make the same HG).

P: Sluggish means you have
very low blood pressure and it is not possible to move (HG – hanging) anything
in your body. Your movement is because of your tone. Your blood has all kinds
of bio-chemicals that keep your tone up. (HG – he makes a tight fist). If there
is any alteration in your bio-chemicals then your body loses its tone very
soon.

GK: Bio-chemicals? (New word)

P: I mean the contents of
blood. In the blood, we have different kind of contents like cells, minerals,
hormones, proteins, vitamins, etc. But if the blood’s ingredients are altered, then
suddenly, your blood pressure goes down and from low BP and you feel weakness
(HG –hanging). The body maintains all the contents of blood automatically and many
processes are involved in it. So, finally, blood gives power (HG – he makes a
tight fist) to the whole system.

(Here, HG of ‘hanging palm’
and ‘tight fist’ describe his energy pattern and ‘sluggish’, ‘loose’ and ‘tone’
are sensations, but to which kingdom do these sensations belong? His
description “many processes are involved in maintaining the BP with the help of
certain bio-chemicals” makes me think of sarcodes because ‘blood’, ‘processes’
and ‘bio-chemicals’ are words from physiology; my experience from other cases
is that any sensation relating to physiology is a sarcode sensation.)

GK: Now, tell me about your
nature? (I want confirmation of sensations in other areas of his life.)

P: I’m a jittery kind of
person, I want everything fast and I can’t bear waiting. Sometimes, I start
fighting when something doesn’t happen my way. If I don’t find a solution then,
I become restless because I want to solve everything very fast. When I chase
any problem, I always go to the roots and I correct them very quickly.

GK: Tell me more about ‘I
want all solutions’?

P: If you don’t find a
solution then you are gone. If you drop down when fighting, then your opponent can
overpower you. If you don’t have any power (HG – tight fist) then what is the
difference between you and a water-filled bag? You are nothing. (HG – hanging)

GK: Please describe ‘water-filled
bag’?

P: A water-filled bag is completely loose (HG –
hanging). It has no tone and no capacity to do anything. It’s dropped whatever
way you want to drop it, it’s moved whatever way you want to move it. It has no
capacity to stand tight (HG – tight fist).

(Same story of ‘loose’,
‘tight’ and ‘tone’)

GK: Please tell me about your
dreams?

P: I never remember any
dreams.

GK: Your interests and
hobbies?

P: I am very fond of driving
the car at speeds of 120-140 km/h. I never get tired of driving continuously
for 400 to 500 km.

Prescription:Histamine 1MK

Analysis

His description of
physiological words ‘blood’, ‘processes’, ‘bio-chemicals’ makes me think of
sarcodes, but I don’t know the sensations of ‘sluggish’, ‘loose’, ‘tight’,
‘tone’. I look up all the sarcodes and from the materia medica come beautiful
references.

A. Murphy’s materia medica (Important words are written in bold)

Histamine is a
capillary vessel dilator, an
arterial vessel constrictor, a
hypertensive in carnivores and herbivores; it constricts the bronchi and arouses the smooth tissues of the
intestine, the uterus and the gastric and pancreatic salivary secretions and is
normally used in the form of Histamine bi-chlorhydrate, which serves as stock
for homeopathic preparations.Histamine has
general asthenia as after physical
exertion. Dryness of the mucous membranes. Feeling of constriction in different parts of the heart. Quivering and
cramping contracture of the muscles.
Irritable, susceptible, impatient with the need to walk up and
down. Sensitive to the
slightest trifles. Impatient, restless,
with the need to move from place to place aimlessly. Quarrelsome, melancholic, sad, prostration which disappears by
forceful walking. Waiting makes him
particularly nervous, needs to walk up and down. Pain and gastric
constriction when receiving news or remembering a painful experience. Contracture
and muscular twitching of the eyelids and around the eyes. Spasmodic closing of the eyelids.Allergic and
psoric constitutions. Asthma or chronic
bronchitis with lack of air, feeling of oppression or constriction in the chest. Coughing fits which almost choke him.

B. Synoptic materia medica

"It is a powerful stimulant of gastric secretion,
a constrictor of bronchial smooth muscle and a vasodilator [capillaries and
arterioles] that causes a fall in blood
pressure." [Stedman's][See: Jayesh
Shah, Hurried and quarrelsome - Two cases of histamine, Homoeopathic Links,
3/97]

Constriction
and Dilatation are the basic
potentials of Histamine which are expressed as ‘tight’ and ‘loose’ in this
case, so finally everything makes sense.

Follow-up after one month

GK: How are you?

P: I’m fine. Since taking
your medicine, I had two wheezing attacks, but this time they did not last too
long. I took an inhaler and I recovered immediately.

GK: What about other complaints?

P: No other complaints except
this asthma. The weakness in my legs is gone now.

GK: Any dreams?

P: I remember one… I had an examination
and the bus did not come on time; I can’t tolerate waiting, so when the bus
finally came, I fought (verbally) with the driver.

Plan: There
are not many changes in his emotional state, but he starts improving at a local
level, so wait and watch.

Follow up after six months

His wife calls me one morning
to say that her husband has severe acidity. He is on a liquid diet because he
can’t bear simple food. He has eructations and sometimes he vomits. I advise
her to repeat the dose: he recovers quickly from the acidity.

Follow up after ten months

GK: How are you?

P: I’m fine. Thank you. During
the last six months, I have not had a single attack of asthma. Unbelievable!
One dose can cure acidity? In the past, I took 3kg of herbal powders to treat
the acidity, but you cured me with only one dose!

GK: This is true; if your
medicine is perfectly matched with your state then sometimes we get miraculous
results. Tell me what differences do you notice between the past and now?

P: I used to be a very
jittery kind of person, but now I think first before making any decision. In
the past, I couldn’t wait for anything; I wanted everything straight away, but
now, I first take a look at the situation and then I act accordingly. These
changes make me business-wise also. In short, now I feel young.

(My observation: he speak
slowly now and he has very little spasmodic blinking.)

Until today, he has not had
any complaints; he required four doses of histamine 1MK in total.

Information
on sarcodes

You can find further information about sarcodes in my article “The Language of sarcodes” in ‘Homeopathic Links 1/10’. These
are some selected paragraphs from the article.

A
sarcode is prepared from healthy tissue and that tissue has a useful and
healthy function. Why would anybody require a remedy made from useful and
healthy tissues? When the whole being responds as if it were that one part,
this can be considered as disease and that person requires a corresponding sarcode
(See The Sensation in Homoeopathy, page: 681).A
sarcode is prepared from healthy tissue, so it has a direct relation to
physiology. The physiological process, phenomenon or function is the sensation
of a sarcode.Sarcode patient’s
language is often confused with the language of minerals because they sometimes
speak about functions, but a mineral's function is
related to structure. The mineral sensation is expressed as… “I'm missing
something” or “I'm losing something,” while sarcode function is expressed as…“I
must function properly, perfectly, appropriately and as required, neither more
nor less.”

The sarcodes are prepared from healthy tissue or
secretion, so they have the potential of that particular tissue. If we
understand that potentiality of tissue then we can easily prescribe sarcodes.

Let’s look at the Histamine case
with regard to potentiality. First, you ask the question: why does the body
require histamine? What is role of histamine in the body? Histamine is meant
for capillary dilatation and arterial
constriction, or dilatation and constriction of smooth muscles, so dilatation
and constriction is the potentiality of histamine. If somebody’s whole being responds
as if he is histamine, then we prescribe histamine and it makes him more ‘human’.

Excellent explanation in simple language. I accidentally got to read when I was searching for the use and application of Sarcodes.

Thanks a lot.

Wafaa Abdul Samad
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Histamine caseReply #22 on : Sat January 25, 2014, 21:42:29

It is astonishing, your analysis, your knowledge, your accuracy, and the most astonishing is the sensation method. Chapeau bas

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Well comeReply #21 on : Thu March 14, 2013, 12:17:31

Well come Dr. Nirupam..... :)

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Re:Reply #20 on : Fri March 08, 2013, 14:23:31

great ghanshyam , you are doing very well

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Re:Reply #19 on : Thu May 10, 2012, 16:18:44

thank u sir for a case
great depth in percieving and understanding a case .
congratulation sir
wish for more cases and learnings
thank u

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Re:Reply #18 on : Sun April 15, 2012, 06:42:55

Dear Ghanshyam,

First of all thanks for the nice case.
But how do you differentiatie this from adrenalin remedy ? Please reply.

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Re:Reply #17 on : Sun April 15, 2012, 05:52:08

such nice explaination about case with traveling through the each level of sensation method.sir as you described na its seems pt is sitting in front of me making HG.its reallty easy to understand,after i complte the case i also think some mineral remedies which relations with capacity, restelessness,maintainance,power, tone, but as i read explaination i came to know ,,,, thanks for sharing,

@ Vitor Menescal, Thank you for your comment and liking my work, please read below link. It has two cases RNA and Urea, all cases are taken and analyzed when I have little idea about sarcode, so it's some what differ then this one, but central theme is running the same...

Excellent case & description of sarcodes. Another door has been opened for precise prescribing. Exciting times for homeopathy. Thanks for sharing.

ps - I just read your article "The Language of Sarcodes" and found four interesting citations from other cases. Would you mind tell us the remedies prescribed? Or even better would you point us to the cases? Thanks again